Harvard University President Claudine Gay testifies before a House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Committee hearing titled "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism" in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, 2023. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) On Tuesday, Claudine Gay announced her resignation as president of Harvard University amid “tensions and divisions” surrounding allegations of plagiarism and fallout from last month’s heated exchange during her congressional testimony related to the war in Israel and Gaza. Here’s what happened. Why did she resign? According to her resignation letter, Gay, the university’s first Black president and second woman to hold the position, said it...